The Year 2 curriculum provides a study of local history.
Students explore, recognise and appreciate the history of their local area by examining remains of the past and considering why they should be preserved.
What aspects of the past can you see today?
What do they tell us?
What remains of the past are I
important to the local community? Why?
How have changes in technology shaped our daily life?
The history of a significant person, building, site or part of the natural environment in the local community and what it reveals about the past.
The importance today of an historical site of cultural or spiritual significance; for example,
a community building, a landmark.
The impact of changing technology on people’s lives (at home and in the ways they worked, travelled,
communicated, and played in the past)
Chronology, terms and concepts
Sequence familiar objects and events Distinguish between the past, present and future
Historical questions and research
Pose questions about the past using sources provided
Analysis and use of sources
Explore a range of sources about the past.
Identify and compare features of objects from the past and present
Perspectives and interpretations
Explore a point of view
Explanation and communication
Develop a narrative about the past using a range of communication forms
By the end of Year 2, students identify and place some of the key events, people and changes in the history of their local community within a time sequence.
Students pose and answer
questions about the past using different historical sources.
Students use a variety of sources about the past. They recognise physical signs of the past in the present and explain how and why daily life changed over time.
Students explain the significance of a person, site or event to the development of their local community. Students describe an event or place or relate stories about their community’s past.
They present their information using written, spoken and visual texts. When telling their stories, they use appropriate terms denoting time.
Students explore, recognise and appreciate the history of their local area by examining remains of the past and considering why they should be preserved.
What do they tell us?
What remains of the past are I
important to the local community? Why?
How have changes in technology shaped our daily life?
The importance today of an historical site of cultural or spiritual
significance; for example,
a community building, a landmark.
The impact of changing technology on people’s lives (at home and in the ways they worked, travelled,
communicated, and played in the past)
Chronology, terms and concepts
Sequence familiar objects and eventsDistinguish between the past, present and future
Historical questions and research
Pose questions about the past using sources providedAnalysis and use of sources
Explore a range of sources about the past.Identify and compare features of objects from the past and present
Perspectives and interpretations
Explore a point of viewExplanation and communication
Develop a narrative about the past using a range of communication formsStudents pose and answer
questions about the past using different historical sources.
Students use a variety of sources about the past. They recognise physical signs of the past in the present and explain how and why daily life changed over time.
Students explain the significance of a person, site or event to the development of their local community. Students describe an event or place or relate stories about their community’s past.
They present their information using written, spoken and visual texts. When telling their stories, they use appropriate terms denoting time.